AI Can Play 'Significant' Role in Tech for Managing Diabetes, Says David Roman
David Roman, US medtech and healthcare IT research analyst for Goldman Sachs, said that AI play a 'significant' role in helping patients stay on top of their diabetes, with companies like Abbott and Dexcom using new technology to count carbohydrates and deliver the right amount of insulin.
Google News AI
SpaceX to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in enterprise push - Yahoo Finance
SpaceX to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in enterprise push Yahoo Finance
OpenAI
Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment
OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.
Computerworld NZ
Q&A: A look at forward-deployed engineers, AWS style
Hot AI companies can’t stop talking about forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), which are now very much in vogue. FDEs, in case you haven’t heard, are hired by companies looking (hoping?) to successfully deploy AI tools and services.
NPR Technology · Deepa Shivaram
Anthropic incident leaves confusion about Trump administration's AI regulation
There's been a lot of confusion and disruption about the legal authority the Trump administration has to suspend AI technology.
The Verge AI · Tina Nguyen
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrive for a news conference with bipartisan senators on passage of the Online Privacy Protection Act at the Capitol on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images.
IT Brief NZ · karen@techday.com (Karen Joy Bacudo)
Ramp launches Applied AI Solutions for finance teams
Finance teams could see faster automation as Ramp places engineers inside clients to build bespoke AI systems on its platform.
Google News AI
The first AI World Cup is an $11 billion money machine: Chart of the Day - Yahoo Finance
The first AI World Cup is an $11 billion money machine: Chart of the Day Yahoo Finance
IT-Web Africa
Syngenta Signs MoU to Be Strategic Partner in India’s First Open-Data Agricultural Ecosystem Annam.AI
India’s agriculture sector is a global powerhouse, uniquely characterized by its massive scale, vast arable land, diverse agro-climatic zones and rich biodiversity.
Bloomberg Technology · Irina Anghel
AI Turns Coders, Lawyers and Analysts Into Ghosts of London’s Past
Search for “finance analyst” and you’re likely to find around 80 vacancies in London, according to a prominent recruitment website. If that seems like a surprisingly low number for one of the world’s biggest banking and corporate hubs, it’s because it is.
Computerworld NZ
Claude Corps: Charitable work or charity washing?
Anthropic has come up with a neat way to combat those students who are booing AI at their universities. The company has launched Claude Corps, an endeavor that will pay selected young people to extol the benefits of AI to communities across the US.
Bloomberg Technology
SpaceX IPO Shows Willingness to Finance AI, Waldron Says
John Waldron, Goldman Sachs president and chief operating officer discusses SpaceX's record IPO and whether markets can absorb two other possible big IPOs by the end of the year.
The Guardian AI · Manoush Zomorodi and Keith Diaz
Those tedious errands, tasks and chores that AI wants to replace? They help keep you fit | Manoush Zomorodi and Keith
There’s a downside to too much convenience: it harms our bodies There is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally returning to their essential, best selves.
Google News AI
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks - Nature
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks Nature
Axios · Ashley Gold
Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI
The government should legally be able to block or deter dangerous AI deployments, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in an essay Wednesday. Why it matters: Anthropic's ideas for tech regulation and economic disruption from AI go far beyond anything currently under serious consideration in Washington…
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Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
A group of independent musicians is suing Google claiming it trained Lyria on their uploads. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now.
IT Brief NZ · sofiah@techday.com (Sofiah Nichole Salivio)
Conga study finds AI adoption outpaces CLM governance
Most firms lack formal AI policies for contract management, leaving legal and compliance teams exposed as adoption races ahead.
The Verge AI · Nilay Patel
Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job
Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short. I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode.
Axios · Russell Contreras
AI is masking America's "post-literate" workforce
Millions of working Americans struggle to read at a functional level. and artificial intelligence may be helping hide it. Why it matters: Low literacy is quietly becoming a major economic drag, even as AI tools allow workers to complete tasks they may not fully understand.
Bloomberg Technology · Rachel Graf, Aaron Weinman
For Goldman’s Top Bankers, It’s All AI Data Centers All the Time
For leveraged finance practitioners, artificial intelligence is the only game in town. especially in the absence of more debt deals to finance mergers and acquisitions.
Axios · Rebecca Falconer
Classrooms lean into analog learning in the AI era
Parents, educators and lawmakers are pushing schools to curb classroom screen use amid concerns about student attention, behavior and learning. Why it matters: School cellphone bans are expanding into broader efforts to limit screen use and establish guardrails around AI in education.
Axios · Zachary Basu
"The pitchforks are here": Billionaires work to contain AI's populist revolt
America's billionaires are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes.
Bloomberg Technology
The Cost of Teaching Wall Street Bankers to Use AI Tools
As Wall Street is getting caught up in AI angst and looking to hire more AI specialists and shrink traditional banking roles, two highly sought-after AI trainers in finance are charging $25,000 for a day of training.
The Spinoff · Catherine McGregor
The government is betting on AI. Has it done the maths?
The 8,700 lost public sector jobs will be replaced, in part, by AI. But nobody can say how it will work or what it will cost, writes Catherine McGregor in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here.
Ventureburn · Clinton
Lexroom Raises $50M to Expand AI Legal Platform Across Civil Law Markets
Series B Funding Strengthens Lexroom’s Legal AI Expansion Lexroom Raises $50M in new Series B funding. The round strengthens the company’s expansion strategy across major civil law jurisdictions.